Quotes About Innovation

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

Look for cars where people might not look, like shopping centres or notice boards as you can find some real gems that other people have not even thought of.

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.